Package: ssh Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4 Followup-For: Bug #154645
I'm just looking through old bug reports seeing if there's any I can help close, and I think I can confirm that on a default installation of the current Debian stable release (3.1), ssh *does* honour the contents of /etc/hosts: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host thisisnotahostname Host thisisnotahostname not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep thisisnotahostname /etc/hosts 82.69.130.94 thisisnotahostname [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -p 2200 thisisnotahostname The authenticity of host 'thisisnotahostname (82.69.130.94)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 8d:6a:70:cd:8c:7f:d3:1b:2b:58:07:39:97:36:e3:37. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no Host key verification failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l ssh | grep ssh ii ssh 3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) For what it's worth: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on If there's any more information I can provide, please let me know. Dave -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages ssh depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: ssh/insecure_rshd: ssh/ssh2_keys_merged: ssh/user_environment_tell: * ssh/forward_warning: ssh/insecure_telnetd: ssh/new_config: true * ssh/use_old_init_script: true * ssh/protocol2_only: true ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen: * ssh/run_sshd: true * ssh/SUID_client: true ssh/disable_cr_auth: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]